Easiest $180 I Ever Made
I don't use my business or personal AmEx cards all that often, so I called to cancel both of 'em this morning. The representative came back with a rather unexpected offer: “If we credit your corporate account $150, would you keep it alive?” Uh, yeah. I should cancel these things more often, man. He transfered me to the personal account management division and I pulled the same sob story on the fresh meat CSR. She returned: “If I offered you $30…” Awww?! Well, something was much better than nothing. The moral of the story is: I'm going to cancel these things every couple of months (or, at least, threaten to). Think Superman will ever catch on?
10 Comments
Anonymous
April 16th, 2004
at 6:49am
Nice job Chris, did that before with A Visa Card.
Anonymous
April 16th, 2004
at 7:48am
Chris,
I like what you did with your Moblog.
Can I have the same copy as what you did?
Thank you
Johng
Anonymous
April 16th, 2004
at 9:26am
A brililant plot Chris. I'll have to try that at work today.
Anonymous
April 16th, 2004
at 9:26am
A brilliant plot Chris. I'll have to try that at work today.
Anonymous
April 16th, 2004
at 9:28am
Well I guess TechTV and leo worked out there differences. dam dam dam dam. Maby TechTV said they would advetise leo's book more.
Anonymous
April 16th, 2004
at 2:50pm
Trust me, after all the interest you've paid, you didn't make any money. lol
Anonymous
April 16th, 2004
at 4:08pm
I don't think Amex charges interest, since you can't hold a balance, but the yearly member fees are way too much.
Anonymous
April 16th, 2004
at 6:27pm
Careful on canceling cards, esp old cards as that will affect your credit history and your FICO score.
Anonymous
April 20th, 2004
at 5:29am
Allot of credit card companies will do that in order to keep thier customers. They often will also lower your APR if you ask. Give it a shot.
Anonymous
April 29th, 2004
at 12:46pm
Wow, that's pretty cool. I'll definitely have to try that.